IFRS – International Financial Reporting Standards are becoming a single set of high quality, understandable and enforceable global standards. The adoption of IFRS in the EU, Australia, and many other countries from 2005 follows the global trend for enterprises to report under IFRS. In China, although IFRS are not officially adopted as the national accounting standards, the new Accounting Standards for Business Enterprises (ASBE) published in 2006 by the Ministry of Finance, PRC marked a significant step for Chinese accounting standards to move towards IFRS. The new Chinese Accounting Standards' scope includes all IFRS principles. There are, however, a small number of differences between them and IFRS to reflect unique circumstances in China, largely reflecting relationships between the state and corporate entities. |
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